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# Well that's how TV commissioning works isn't it?
Take an existing format and then give the main character a slight disability/quirk.

Doctor with a gammy leg, policeman with OCD, PI with a box for a head.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:28, archived)
# Television chef with tourette's.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:31, archived)
# Marco Pierre Ramsey
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:33, archived)
# I'm not overly familiar with that French one.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:35, archived)
# I must admit I like seeing the merkin's reactions to his swears
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:34, archived)
# It's all the massive 'macho' chefs they have
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:38, archived)
# It's when they cry because Gordon comes in and says their food is shit
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:39, archived)
# But he doesn't even swear does he?
I watched a clip of it and he just went: "I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU! DISGUSTED EVEN!"

And the americans were bawling like he'd just shit in their grandmother's grave or something.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:40, archived)
# In the first series of Kitchen Nightmares USA he did swear a lot
He got in trouble for it though
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:41, archived)
# you can't swear on american tv! it's just wrong!
or fuck

that too

but chaingun a busload of nuns! HAHAHA NUNS!

^__^

god bless america :D
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 14:32, archived)
# I need a shit.
I wish my gran would hurry up and die.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:44, archived)
# A high court judge with repressed perversions and homosexuality.
Oh wait...
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:35, archived)
# What's all this?
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:38, archived)
# I was just implying that all high court judges are repressed deviants and homosexuals.
Technically it would have been more accurate and obvious if I'd said conservative MP, but there aren't that many dramas about politics.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:42, archived)
# I thought I was missing a good programme.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:44, archived)
# Whenever a new Detective show stars now
the first thing I ask is "what's his thing then"
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:43, archived)
# I'd quite like to see a detective show where the main character is just incredibly boring.
No quirks or social awkwardness, just normal family life to the point of painful tedium.
(, Tue 12 May 2009, 13:46, archived)